Yes, skunks can and do eat rattlesnakes, especially young snakes.
Yes, skunks can and do eat rattlesnakes, especially young snakes.
A variety of animals, including hawks, eagles, owls, roadrunners, foxes, coyotes, skunks all will kill and eat a rattlesnake, including the Arizona black rattlesnake.
Pigs, especially wild pigs, will kill and eat a rattlesnake.
Spotted skunks eat bird eggs, chickens, moles, mice, rats, ants, spiders, worms, lizards, voles, stink bugs, crickets, earthworms and beetles.
The mongoose typically has three serrated claws that would slash at the predator normally. The rattlesnake's tough skin reduces the strength of the blow, preventing these claws from penetrating the inner sanctum of the rattlesnake's oral pectum. The rattlesnake could retaliate by using his poisonous fangs and the spotted rattlesnake venom could kill a mongoose with 0.246 of a drop.
Skunks are carnivores. They kill and eat small animals and insects.
Yes, a skunk can eat an eastern diamondback rattlesnake. Skunks have a strong immune system that allows them to withstand snake venom, and they are opportunistic feeders that will consume small animals, including snakes. However, this behavior is not common, as skunks usually prefer other food sources like insects, fruits, and small mammals.
Skunks are carnivores. They kill and eat small animals and insects.
A rattlesnake could kill an animal the size of a horse or cow. However, it could not eat such a large animal. Its bite would be in self defense.
Hawks, eagles, roadrunners, weasels, raccoons, skunks, kingsnakes and a variety of other mammals and birds will eat rattlesnakes, especially young rattlers. Even tarantulas will eat young rattlers.
Pumas kill and eat deer, raccoons, squirrels, foxes, rabbits and skunks for a living
Yes, it would, but the rattlesnake has poison.